The lecture ‘Curator in progress. About a practice in permanent evolution’ held by Enrico Lunghi was the introduction to the international curatorial symposium which is taking place in Plovdiv at the end of October. The project is co-organised by the New Bulgarian University Sofia and the Centre for Contemporary Art ‘Banja Starinna’, Plovdiv with the kind support of the European Cultural Foundation and the Sachsen-Anhalt Meeting-point Centre. Partners of the project are Goethe-Institut Sofia, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest and Feinkost Gallery, Berlin.
Image from the lecture
The left Yana Kostova, curator and in the middle Enrico Lunghi.
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In the night between 12th and 13th of June, PAVILION UNICREDIT participated in the White Night of the Galleries program.
Open air hopscotch: Public Space Captive With No Cause
The best player was rewarded with a batch of books extracted from our PAVILION RESOURSE ROOM + the last album of vaduvaBOB.
All participants got PAVILION - journal for politics and culture - no. 13 “MEDECINE SOCIALE” (just released that day).
Special treat concert: our favourite psychosexual dirge punk band vaduvaBOB.
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Oliver Ressler: The Alter-Globalization Movement - Interventions with Art in Political Movements. A live dialogue with Razvan Ion. June 18, 2009.
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Felix Vogel (curator of Bucharest Biennale 2010) and Alex Mirutziu (artist of Bucharest Biennale 2010) hold a lecture in the frame of BRUT ‘09 (platform for contemporary art and culture) Sibiu, at German Cultural Center.
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On June 11 PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted a dialogue between Carlos Aires and Eugen Radescu, with the title Happily Ever After.
Carlos Aires is a Spanish artist www.carlosaires.com
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On 10th of June PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted a lecture/performance of Saviana Stanescu, with the title (r)EVOLUTION.
Saviana Stanescu is a well known romanian dramaturg who lives and works in New York, USA.
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On 8th of June PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted a seminar of an architecture class from the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Bucharest.
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On 4th of June PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted a dialogue between Kristoffer Ardena and Razvan Ion, with the title IN SEARCH OF MEMORY LOST.
Kristoffer Ardena is a philipino-spanish artist living in Madrid.
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In May 23 the Director of Art in General, together with a group of curators visited PAVILION UNICREDIT.
From left to right, MARIANNA DOBKWSKA (curator at Canter for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle) , NINA HORISAKI-CHRISTENS (Assistant Curator at Art in General, BRANKO FRANCESCHI (curator), ANNE BARLOW (Director of Art in General NY)
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On May 21 PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted a lecture by Razvan Tupa wit the topic Politics of Poetics.
Razvan Tupa is a poet and a cultural journalist.
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On May 13 PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted a lecture by Catalin Avramescu, with the topic The Cannibal at the Last Judgement. The Philosophy of Cannibalism.
Catalin Avramescu is a philosopher and professor at Bucharest University.
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On 7th of May, PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted a lecture by Adrian Majuru, with the topic The City on Our Face.
Adrian Majuru is a historian and an antropologist who wrote nine books on the antropology and history of Bucharest.
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On April 30, PAVILION UNICREDIT hosted the opening of HOW INNOCENT IS THAT?, an exhibition curated by Eugen Radescu, opened for the public until July 05.
Participants: AES+F (Rusia), Carlos Aires (Spain), Juan delGado (Spain/UK), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Germany).
Andrei Craciun (left), coordinator of PAVILION UNICREDIT, Razvan Ion (centre), Director of PAVILION UNICREDIT and Eugen Radescu (right), curator of the show.
“In our times, who can pay much attention to the massacre of the innocence? The innocents of yesterday are sending the bombs of today, these supreme gifts of helplessness, infamy and failure. There is an East of the innocence, like there is a West of the innocents. As I am living in Romania - the state and paideuma of innocence in its unbalanced, unhappy and dumb form - I imagined the “stranger”, with his “strangeness”, was something - something else (together with his alter). Far from the truth. We are all false, disintegrated, miserable, and lacking innocence. Lacking interest. Civilization doesn’t mean the steam engine, but it means civility, the ability to have civic relationships, to follow judicial norms. Somehow, all these attributes are lost. We have forgotten our civility; we lost our civilization. We have become innocent vacuum cleaners and we are sucking in ignorance, pain, ardour, hatred, show. Nowadays it is easier to kill one thousand people than say “Have a good day”. (quoted from Eugen Radescu’s book “HOW INNOCENT IS THAT?)
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Every week PAVILION UNICREDIT hosts informal meeting of students, artists, curators, cultural managers. The topics are choose from the books/publications of PAVILION RESOURSE ROOM.
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Felix Vogel, curator of BB4 hold a press conference in Bucharest.
More on www.bucharestbiennale.org
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PAVILION is part of WE LOVE MAGAZINE LIBRARY in Tokio.
Details here: http://www.magazinelibrary.jp/
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After 3 years of hard work we have completed our tools with PAVILION UNICREDIT - center for contemporary art. After the magazine and Bucharest Biennale, with PAVILION UNICREDIT we are completed.
At opening day was more then 50 journalist who represented newspapers, tv channels, radios and magazines from around the world. At the opening night on 19th of February 2009 the space seemed tight and small. All 450 sqm was occupied. More then 350 people attended and we are sorry we did not expected that and some people had to wait in front to enter the center.
More about the program here: www.pavilionunicredit.ro
And some images (photo Ioana Nitu).
At press conference, part of the team (from left to right): Lia Perjovschi, Eugen Radescu, Andrei Craciun, Ioana Roescu, Razvan Ion.
Silvia Vasilescu, our education & publications manager, acting as a tv reporter.
The journalists.
Lia Perjovschi made a tour of the exhibition with all journalists.
Felix Vogel, curator of Bucharest Biennale 4 and Ion Grigorescu, one of the legendary Romanian artists.
The space was too small for so many people which wanted to be at the opening.
Part of the team (from left to right): Andrei craciun, eugen radescu, Razvan Ion, Alex enachioaie, Anca Nuta, Ioana Roescu.
Debate after opening. Only the team. Facing the camera first on the left, our assistant director Ioana Nitu.
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After months of hard work and unexpected problems PAVILION UNICREDIT - center for contemporary art & culture - will be open at 19th of February 19.00 hours. Please visit www.pavilionunicredit.ro for more details.
Here a pdf file with amazing images (photo by Ioana Nitu): http://www.pavilionunicredit.org/photo_PU.pdf
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The underconstruction space.
The most waited PAVILION UNICREDIT - center for contemporary art & culture is underconstruction. Will be 270 sqm of exhibition space and 140 sqm of offices and facilities (including the CAA/CAA wonderful archive of books and publications put together by Lia & Dan Perjovschi and PAVILION RESOURCES ROOM put together by Razvan Ion and Eugen Radescu).
The author of the project design is the fabulous architect Adriana Mereuta.
Expected opening: February 19, 2009 — 19.00 hours.
Our under-construction web address: www.pavilionunicredit.ro
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PAVILION magazine was exhibited here:
Dan Perjovschi
Chestii tiparite/ Printed stuff
Galeria Posibila, Bucharest
28. 11. 2008 - 08. 02. 2009
Galeria Posibila is pleased to announce the first Bucharest retrospective of the internationally acclaimed Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi. His 20-year practice which has revolutionized drawing is seen through the printed materials it has resulted in, from artist books or self-published newspapers to the complete collection of 22 opposition magazine, in which he has contributed ever since 1990.
A new artist book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition, comprising three of Perjovschi’s projects in 2008. As always, the book mirrors the preparatory note-books of each project, the printed material functioning as an archive of an otherwise ephemeral practice. His witty, politically charged comments on the cities of Bucharest, Brussels and Chisinau are intertwined in this pocket-size catalogue, of which a special edition of 20 includes an original drawing.
Image: Pavilion postcards and the magazine in Dan Perjovschi’s exhibition. Photo: Ioana Nitu.
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5. MSE – Meeting (Middle-South-East Meeting) „Network Practice“
Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem
Pasteurova 9, 400 01 Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
28/29 November 2008
The idea of the MSE – Meetings (MSE stands for Middle-South-East Europe) is to gather leaders of art initatives & institutions, curators and
theoreticians with a focus on the Middle-South-Eastern European region in order to exchange knowledge, information and experiences and
to discuss the specific topic of the Meeting. The Meetings are held biannual and always in different countries.
This edition of MSE – Meeting will put its focus on the idea of networking itself. Therefore a number of representatives from other
comparable networks and leaders of institutions respectively curators who work with network related ideas and structures will be invited
to join the Meeting in order to compare and discuss the different conceptions of existing networks and the role they can play in further
developing of international collaborative projects among participants of such networks. Questions of different impact of a specific project idea
on particular art scenes will be as well raised as challenges of collaboration in the moment of different basic conceptions of participating art
initiatives and further on disproportions in the MSE region regarding the ability to get projects funded.
FRIDAY, 28/11/2008
A) SWAPING ENERGY IN AND OUT
About institutions and activities which on the one hand bring international input into their local contexts, into their institutions and programmes
and, on the other, and the other way around, try to foster local activities and transport them abroad. Creativity is needed in developing new
models of collaboration especially when the institutions do not have much support on a local administrative level or first have to become
established on the international art map.
10:00 –10:30 Keynote speech: Iara Boubnova / ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art (Sofia)
10:30 –10:50 Rael Artel / Public Preparation (Tallinn)
10:50 –11:10 Els Hanappe / ITYS – Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought (Athens)
11:10 –11:30 Vlad Morariu / Vector Cultural Association (Iasi)
11:30 –11:50 Helen Hirsch / Kunstmuseum Thun (Thun)
11:50 –12:20 Discussion
Moderators: Michal Kolecek & Zdena Koleckova / FAD UJEP – Faculty of Art and Design
at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem (Usti nad Labem)
13:00 –15:00 Lunch break
B) LINKING DIFFERENT FIELDS: ART, ACTIVISM & SCIENCE
About the development of networks beyond the borders of art and the role of art spaces in multidisciplinary discourses. To which spheres can
art be connected? The connections to the fields of political activism and social science are of special interest. Are there possible synergies
and possibilities to widen the audience? What about the interest and response from activists, scientists and NGOs? Can art have an influence
on political and social discourses?
15:00 –15:30 Keynote speech: Razvan Ion / Bucharest Biennale, Pavilion magazine (Bucharest)
15:30 –15:50 Antonia Majaca, Ivana Bago / Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery (Zagreb)
15:50 –16:10 Martin Krenn / IG Bildende Kunst (Vienna)
16:10 –16:30 Lise Skou, Ditte Lyngkaer / rum46 (Aarhus)
16:30 –17:00 Discussion
Moderator: Luchezar Boyadjiev / ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art (Sofia)
SATURDAY, 29/11/2008
C) NETWORKING CULTURE
About the importance of networks in the daily practice. How networks are conceived, how they are growing and how they are established.
About the differences between networks conceived for longer duration and such for temporary, project-based use. What about the networks
initiated by established institutions and such emerging from small initiatives? Does networking help to catch the public‘s eye, which is hard to
catch without? How can the further development of networks be managed?
10:00 –10:30 Keynote speech: Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Moshammer / Networked Cultures (London / Vienna)
10:30 –10:50 Ana Dzokic, Marc Neelen / STEALTH.unlimited (Rotterdam)
10:50 –11:10 Antje Weitzel, Dortje Drechsel / uqbar (Berlin)
11:10 –11:30 Vit Havranek, Zbynek Baladran / Tranzitdisplay (Prague)
11:30 –11:50 Elena Tsvetaeva / NCCA – National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad)
11:50 –12:20 Discussion
Moderator: Alenka Gregoric / Skuc Gallery (Ljubljana)
13:00 –15:00 Lunch break
D) LOCAL CONNECTING / NEIGHBOURHOODS
About the importance of networks in a regional context. What is in focus in the work of institutions which actively play their role in
a geographical region, within a country or cross border connecting institutions in neighbouring countries. Can such activities gain importance
on an international level? On which requirements is the desire for local networking based?
15:00 –15:30 Keynote speech: Basak Senova / NOMAD (Istanbul)
15:30 –15:50 Ivana Marjanovic, Vida Knezevic / Kontekst Gallery (Belgrade)
15:50 –16:10 Stefan Rusu / [ksa:k] Center for Contemporary Art (Chisinau)
16:10 –16:30 Monika Szewczyk / Arsenal Gallery (Bialystok)
16:30 –16:50 Yane Calovski / press to exit project space (Skopje)
16:50 –17:20 Discussion
Moderators: Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer / < rotor > association for contemporary art (Graz)
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Filip Radunovic, Christiane Erharter / ERSTE Foundation (Vienna)
Nino Tchogoshvili / Art Academy Tbilissi (Tbilissi)
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Bucharest Biennale participated in “All Biennials of the World Today” organized by The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and the curators of the 28th Bienalle.
A large library installed on the pavilion’s third floor, consisting of an archive, an auditorium, a meeting room, a reading room, a computer hall with internet access, and a collection of 600 publications from 72 countries. The library is based on the collections of the Archive Wanda Svevo of the São Paulo Biennial’s Foundation, and will frame and support the cycle of conferences to take place between October and November 2008.
Image: PAVILION reader of Bucharest Biennale 3 exhibited. Courtesy of São Paulo Biennial.
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APEX ART NEW YORK
Thursday, November 13, 6:30 pm
How innocent is that?
Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic in conversation about the state of innocence in Eastern Europe.
Eugen Radescu is an independent curator, co-founder, and co-publisher at Pavilion magazine, chairman of artphoto asc., and co-director of Bucharest Biennale. Eugen Radescu is in residence with apexart as the recipient of a CEC ArtsLink Fellowship.
Bosko Blagojevic is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn. His writing on art and culture has appeared in a variety of media both online and off, including recently the journals Afterimage, USELESS and Art Asia Pacific, as well as several artist’s publications. He, along with Xenia Pachikov, is co-founder and director of Platform for Pedagogy, a New York-based organization working to advance a culture of cross-disciplinary public lecture attendance and develop the lecture as form.
Here you can download the podcast of the panel discussion: http://www.apexart.org/events/media/radescu.mp3
www.apexart.org
Image: Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic in front of Apex public.
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With the help of IASPIS (special thanks to Cecilia Widenheim and Suzi Ersahin) and ICR Stockholm (special thanks to Giorgiana Zachia and Dan Shafran) we made a research trip in Stockholm in order to establish contacts for our new upcoming PAVILION UNICREDIT center for contemporary art & culture.
We visited/met with the directors/curators from:
Iaspis (www.iaspis.com)
Marabou Parken (www.marabouparken.se)
Bonniers Konsthall (www.bonnierskonsthall.se)
Magasin 3 (www.magasin3.com)
Konsthall C (www.konsthallc.se)
Index (www.indexfoundation.se)
Botkyrka Konsthall (www.botkyrka.se)
Labyrint Press
Tensta Konsthall (www.tenstakonsthall.se)
BAC (www.balticartcenter.com)
Thank you for all the cooperation offers from all the directors above.
In the same time in Umea, at BildtMuseet was open the exhibition of Bucharest Biennale 3 (www.bildmuseet.umu.se)
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Badischer Kunstverein
Waldstraße 3, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
04 July - 07 September 2008
Video- and Periodical-Archive
PAVILION
contemporary art & culture magazine
Bucharest, Rumania
Pavilion / # 10-11 What was socialism, and what comes next?, 2008
PAVILION is an art- and culture-magazine published in Bucharest and operating internationally. Its title refers to the relative, temporary structure of contemporary art. As a public platform it serves to introduce other projects and to extend the concept of the magazine.
The double edition “What Was Socialism And What Comes Next?” (#10-11) seeks to bring the discourse concerning (post-)socialism up to date and inquires into its relevance for contemporary art production. The current edition “Being Here. Mapping The Contemporary”(#12) conceives of itself on the one hand as documentation of the 3rd Bucharest Biennale, and on the other hand as a discourse-platform and reader for the exhibition. It is thematically structured around practices and processes of mapping.
30 July, 17.00 - Live talk with the editors Razvan Ion & Eugen Radescu
http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/index.php?Direction=Program&Detail=72
Image from the exhibition.
Images from the debate. From left to right in the above image: Eugen Radescu (chairman of Pavilion), Felix Vogel (curator of Bucharest Biennale 4), Razvan Ion (director of Pavilion), Anja Casser (curator, director of Badischer Kunstverein).
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Brian Holmes lecture : “Escape the Overcode: Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies”
“Are you talking to me?” Live discussions on knowledge production, gender politics and feminist strategies. Participants: h.arta, Marina Grzinic, Post Conceptual Art Class.
“You come to see the show and you’ll get an extra burger!” A performance - dance show by Mihai Mihalcea & Solitude Project.
“Art, sport, and shopping – from modernist utopia to neoliberal dystopia.” Lecture of Ben Seymour and Anthony Iles (UK).
Utopia Travel. A project by: Emanuel Danesch and David Rych
(images from the opening night)
Safe Mapping AKA They Are Watching!
Artists: Loading Open LAB aka Magdalena & Bogdan Pelmus, Bucharest, Romania, Ulysses Castellanos, Faisal Anwar, Theo Pelmus, Ottawa & Toronto, Canada.
Physical–Emotional Map of the Capital City. A lecture by Anca Ionita
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The press conference hosted more people then we expected. Around 250 people attended. For Bucharest was the biggest international press conference ever. Thank you to all interested in BB3.
At the table (from left to right): Eugen Radescu (director BB3), Mirela Valeanu (brand manager Absolut), Ioana Paun (communication director UniCredit), Jan-Erik Lundstrom (curator), Johan Sjostrom (curator), Oana Ailenei (brand manager Pilsner Urquel), Razvan Ion (director BB3).
The first stop for the lecture-performance of the curators and the first stop of the bus tour was at Feeria for the performance of Kristoffer Ardena.
The bus tour was long but everybody was happy. Except the police which did not know why so many people invaded the main boulevard of Bucharest. For few minutes the side walk was completely blocked. Every venue was visited and the curators performed a lecture about the concept and present participants/artists talked shortly about the works.
After all the party was nice. Thank you Pilsner Urquell.
All images by Alexandra Mihalcea.
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The installation of BUCHAREST BIENNALE 3 (May 23 - June 21, 2008).
All images by Alexandra Mihalcea.
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Same presentation as we did in Stockholm, Madrid, Lisboa, Paris, Cluj. Location: Künstlerhaus Bethanien and ICR.
Thanks to our friends: Christoph Tannert and Adriana Popescu.
Part of our team joined us: Vlad Panait, Alexandru Stamo-Bugnariu and Andreea Grigore.
In the studio of Mona Hatoum with Eugen Radescu & Felix Vogel.
At Romanian Cultural Institute (from left Eugen Radescu, Razvan Ion, Felix Vogel and director of ICR, Adriana Popescu)
At Künstlerhaus Bethanien. From left: Christoph Tannert, director Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Adriana Popescu, director ICR, Jan Svenungsson, artist BB3, Karina Nimmerfall, artist BB3, Felix Vogel, Eugen Radescu and Razvan Ion.
Part of the team of BB3 in the magnificent garden of ICR Berlin. From left: Andreea Grigore, Razvan ion, Vlad Panait, Alexandru-Stamo Bugnariu, Ana-Maria Post, Eugen Radescu.
Part of BB3 team in a location of bb5 (berlin biennale).
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Same presentation as we did in Stockholm, Madrid, Lisboa, Paris. Location: Art Academy in Cluj, Romania.
Thanks to our friends: prof. Mara Ratiu and prof. Bogdan Iacob. With special support of prof. Cosmin Marian.
Bogdan Iacob (professor) introducing Razvan Ion (co-director BB3).
Razvan Ion presenting the BB3.
Adrian Matei (artist participant in BB3) presenting his work.
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Between 03-29 February 2008, at the invitation of Romanian Cultural Institutes in Madrid, Lisboa and Paris we visited several spaces and we lectured about BB3 and Pavilion at La Casa Encendida - Madrid, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Lisbon and Romanian Cultural Institute - Paris. See www.pavilionmagazine.org and www.bucharestbiennale.org for details about the program in each city.
Many thanks to our friends: Democracia (Pablo Espana, Ivan Lopez), Nuno Faria, Manuel Da Costa Cabral, Miguel Wandschneider, Horia Barna, Virgil Mihaiu, Anca Milu, Cristina Gavrila, Irina Ionescu, Kristoffer Ardena, Dan Perjovschi.
PARIS
Renaud August-Dormeuil (artist participant in BB3) explaining his work to Eugen Radescu.
Eugen Radescu (co-editor Pavilion & co-director Bucharest Biennale) & Felix Vogel (curator & theoretician) in Mona Hatoum’s exhibition in Paris.
MADRID
Presentation at La Casa Encendida (from left to right: Razvan Ion, Kristoffer Ardena (artist participant in BB3), Eugen Radescu and Horia Barna (director of ICR Madrid).
LISBON
Prezentation at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (from right to left: Eugen Radescu - co-director BB3, Virgil Mihaiu - director of ICR Lisbon, Manuel Da Costa Cabral - financial director of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Razvan Ion - co-director BB3, Nuno Faria - curator & counciler of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Eugen Radescu & Virgil Mihaiu in front of ICR Lisbon.
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Johan Sjöström & Jan-Erik Lundström, the apointed curators of Bucharest Biennale 3 and two of the selected artists held a press conference in Bucharest revealing the complete list of artists and venues. More about in press, artists and venues section of the website.
At the press conference was present Lia Perjovschi and Adrian Matei (two of the artists selected for the BB3).
Special guest was Oana Ailenei, international brands - brand manager, representative of the main sponsor Pilsner Urquell.
From right to left: Adrian Matei, Lia Perjovschi, Jan-Erik Lundstrom, Oana Ailenei and Eugen Radescu (co-director BB3).
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November 21, 2007, 18.30 h.
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES - URBAN MYTHS
Lecture by Adrian Majuru
National Center for Dance, Bucharest
Bd. Nicolae Balcescu, nr. 2 (TNB, 4th Floor, Ronda Hall)
History also maps apparently imperceptible dimensions. These are difficult to detect, deviate and calatogue, since they easily traverse different historical periods, however, once they have penetrated the imperceptible, answers to secular questions may be unveiled. How come we often forget where we started from? How come doing good has a negative connotation? How come “the asses never forigive one of their kind for having risen above media”? (Stefan Zeletin, “From the land of asses”). The emotional geographies are cartogaphies, whose historical fluctuation traverses many epochs and social hierarchies. They are the most sensitive sensors, through which nature strives for or forces an adaptation in a history of its own!
The lecture of Adrian Majuru deals with an emotional cartography of Bucharest, which in a way anticipates the theme of next year’s BUCHAREST BIENNALE 3: “Being here. Mapping the Contemporary” curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrom si Johan Sjostrom.
Adrian Majuru (born 1968, Bucharest) coordinates Folk Art Museum “Dr. Nicolae Minovici” and is one of the initiators behind the founding of the Museum of Urban Anthropology. He is the author of several publications, such as Bucharest of the outskirts or the periphery as a mode of existence (Compania 2003) and Childhood according to romanians (Compania, 2006).
Adrian Majuru starting the lecture.
Face to face with the public for the last questions.
Supported by:
PAVILION | art & culture magazine
www.pavilionmagazine.org
Partner:
Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti
www.cndb.ro
Media Partners:
Alternativ.ro
Feeder.ro
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Bucharest Biennale - Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art - generated by Pavilion, integrates the city in its curatorial project, proposing both a spatial and temporal, itinerant trajectory to the visitor, which leads to the discovery of hidden geographies.
Despite being in a rather introductory stage, the Bucharest Biennale has already positioned itself internationally, and the third edition is expected to express the growing potential of this type of artistic encounter. BB3 questions cartography and proposes a remapping of contemporary art, in extending the art concept towards discursive manifestations with a sociopolitical impact.
Between 23-28 October 2007, at the invitation of Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, we visited several spaces in Stockholm and Goteborg and we lectured about BB3 and Pavilion.
THE PROGRAM:
24 October 2007
ICR Stockholm, Skeppsbron 20, Stockholm
18.00 h
The Magazine as a Temporary Structure
A lecture by Eugen Radescu (RO) on the structure of Pavilion – contemporary art & culture magazine.
The magazine is a structure, which is mainly located in the present, although it sometimes deals with the recent past and is often used as a source of reference for the future – in the future as a reference to the past - and it sometimes presents clairvoyant visions of the future. The mission of a magazine for contemporary art and culture is to analyze the present and to make a statement about what this present could be – the decision of “which present” to display comes with certain responsibility.
It is no longer possible to make a clear distinction between politics and art/aesthetics. Therefore, it could be viewed as one of the main missions of a contemporary magazine to have a clear vision of the present and to make an analysis of the strategies of representation by means of aesthetics, ethics and politics. This undertaking can only be successful, if the magazine maintains its temporary structure.
19.00h
BB3. Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary
Live talk on the topic of Bucharest Biennale 3.
Participants: Maria Lantz (SE), Jan-Erik Lundstrom (SE), Razvan Ion (RO), Eugen Radescu (RO).
Mapping is, in fact, not a mimetic exercise, a process of analogue imitation by way of reduction and abstraction, a means towards the splendid and refractory lives of copies and reproductions. Maps are, rather, parallel worlds, rich and powerful out of their own specific properties, producers of other spaces and alternative geographies. And exactly because of this: resourceful and productive and beautiful instrumentalities for the contemporary moment, for navigation ? or withdrawal? In these strange times, in the midst of the landscapes of terror, fear and loss, of the territories of restricted movement, control and surveillance, of borders which are walls, of globalization with its promises and defeats.
Curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrom & Johan Sjostrom, BB3 (23 May – 21 June 2008) attends to the geographical turn in contemporary creativity and current representational practices.
Bucharest Biennale is proudly supported by Pilsner Urquell.
Launch of the latest issue of PAVILION “What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next”.
Open buffet.
25 October 2007, 12.30 PM
Galleri Mejan, Flaggmansvägen 1, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm (in front of Moderna Museet)
Political Statement of the Biennale
Open lunch talk with Eugen Radescu (RO) & Razvan Ion (RO)
Participants: students of the Royal University College of Fine Arts and the public.
THE PEOPLE:
Maria Lantz
Artist and teacher at the Royal University College of Fine Arts. She is also editor of Motiv magazine. She has exhibited widely and in 2008 will be part of Bucharest Biennale 3.
Jan-Erik Lundström
Born in 1958, Jan Lundström is the director of BildMuseet, Umeå University in Umeå Sweden, a museum of contemporary art and visual culture. He is equally involved in curating, organizing, giving lectures and writing. Previously, he was the curator of the Tirana Biennial, as well as the Thessaloniki Biennial. Furthermore, he is a guest professor at HISK in Antwerp, Belgium and at the Kunstakademie in Oslo, Norway. Jan Lundström is a prolific international lecturer and writer, having contributed to various international symposia and to cultural magazines such as Glänta, European Photography, Paletten and tema celeste. He was appointed curator of Bucharest Biennale 3 together with Johan Sjöstrom.
Razvan Ion
Theoretician and political activist. Co-editor of Pavilion and co-director of the Bucharest Biennale. Razvan Ion has given lectures at University of California, (Berkeley), Headlands Center for the Arts, California, O3one, Belgrade, Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, Cluj, Facultatea de Arte, Timisoara, etc. His studies and texts have been published in various magazines. Razvan Ion is living and working in Bucharest.
Eugen Radescu
Curator, theoretician and co-editor of PAVILION. Eugen Radescu has produced art projects and mixed media performance, and has given lectures at the Art Academy in Timisoara. He was appointed curator for the 1st Bucharest Biennale, where he produced the exhibition “identity_factories”. Eugen Radescu writes for various art magazines and is currently working on the curatorial project “How Innocent Is That?” and his book “Moral Relativity and Ethics”. In 2006, he was appointed co-director of the Bucharest Biennale (together with Razvan Ion). Eugen Radescu is living and working in Bucharest.
The visit happened because of: Dan Shafran, Stefan Constantinescu, Giorgiana Zachia, Maria Lantz, Jan-Erik Lundstrom, Raluca Mihu, Corina Truta and all the team of ICR Stockholm + Bucharest.
THE VISITS
At:
AK28 (independent artist-run-space)
www.ak28.org
Candyland (independent artist-run-space)
www.glimp.se/candyland/
Moderna Museet
www.modernamuseet.se
Goteborg Konsthall
www.konsthallen.goteborg.se
Goteborg Biennial
http://www.rodasten.se/biennalen.asp
And we met the curators of Goteborg Biennial, Joa Ljungberg and Edi Muka (which is also the director of Tirana Biennale).
AND SOME IMAGES:
From right to left: Eugen Radescu (co-director BB3), Henrik Eriksson (artist and member of Ak28), Johanna Gustafsson (artist and member of Ak28).
Magnus Liistamo (director of FrontierGoodies, member of AK28) and Johanna Gustafsson.
Jan-Erik Lundstrom (the co-curator toghther with Johan Sjostrom of Bucharest Biennale 3) during his presentation at Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm.
From right to left: Eugen Radescu (co-director of BB, co-editor of Pavilion), Dan Shafran (director of Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm), Giorgiana Zachia (deputy director of Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm.), Razvan Ion (co-director of BB, co-editor of Pavilion).
One night we went out. In a window of a shoe maker, a surprize: water proof shoes made in Romania. A special brand we never heard about.
One morning we had another surprize: someone sticked a flyer with the BB3 in the street.
Virpi Nasanen (director of Goteborg Biennial) visiting the biennial with Eugen Radescu.
Stefan Constantinescu (Swedish artist by Romanian origin), one of the initiators of BB3 at Stockholm.
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BUCHAREST BIENNALE 3 (parallel event)
proudly sponsored by Pilsner Urquell
YOSHINORI NIWA
07.August.2007
11.00 hours | Bucuresti, Piata Universitatii (in front of National Theatre)
“Kite flying with local people”
Making a flying kite with trash of Bucharest, he will try to fly the kite in Bucharest.
12.30 hours | Bucuresti, Centrul National al Dansului (TNB floor 3/4)
“Kites, Catrina, Chickens and more”
Artist talk of Yoshinori Niwa
In Japan, for the cellebration of the New Year in early january, people traditionally fly kites. Usually made out of paper, taking mythical forms such as Octopus, Demon, Animals, etc. The project in Bucharest is to fly kites made out of garbage collected from the streets of the city, i.e. plastic bags and/or cardboards. This action-art project is a way to collaborate with the people from Bucharest for the making of the kites, and in parallel it constitutes a communicating mixture of Japanese and Romanian culture. Local and global categories are under the scrutiny through this aesthetic action. Trash is part of the culture of any city, and in the garbage one may find the vestiges of international corporations, such as fast food chains, mixed with packaging from local producers. The kite will mix them reconstituting the microcosmos of Bucharest. This kite will be the material expression of commodity distribution system, a witness of contemporary global capitalism, and a commentary on the consumer society in Bucharest. The flying kite is untouchable, but it touches us and will make us rethink our socio-political context. The experience of collectively working on a kite with local people may remain in the memory of Bucharest cityscape.
Yoshinori Niwa is a physical performance artist who often incorporates animals, plants, and the environment into his work. Niwa’s aim is to explore how to live with others, especially those of other cultures and social classes. Niwa has performed works in Britain, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. In addition to his performance work, Niwa is curator and festival organizer. Niwa is currently coordinating an international art festival titled “Artist as Activist” in Tokyo. www.niwa-staff.org
Supported by:
Eco Rom Ambalaje / www.ecoromambalaje.ro
Whirlpool Romania / www.whirlpool.ro
PAVILION | art & culture magazine / www.pavilionmagazine.org
Partner:
National Center for Dance Bucharest / www.cndb.ro
Media Partners:
24FUN
Cotidianul
Alternativ.ro
Feeder.ro
Special thanks to Bucharest Municipality.
Despite the heavy rain Yoshinori Niwa was trying to fly the kite in Bucharest. Press and locals are watching the performance.
Alex Balasescu (anthropologist) trying to fly a kite with Yoshinori Niwa.
Eugen Radescu (co-director Bucharest Biennale) and Dana Porlogea (actress) flying a kite.
Talk with Dan Perjovschi in his studio.
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Exhibition / Travelling Video Installation
DIS-ECONOMY OF LIFE
Migratory Aesthetics, Travelling Concepts & Organization of Economic Life
CINEMA SUITCASE / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artists: Mieke Bal, Zen Marie, Thomas Sykora, Gary Ward and Michelle Williams
Curator: Marko Stamenkovic, art-e-conomy / Belgrade, Serbia
June 21 – 25, 2007
Desant, 123 Ion Mihalache Bd., Bucharest, Romania
Opening: Tuesday, June 21, 19.00 / Followed by Public Debate, 20.00
Participants: Andreea Grecu (economist), Eugen Radescu (politologist), Razvan Ion (editor of Pavilion), Alex Balasescu (antropologist), Cristian Crisbasan (journalist), Catalin Avramescu (political analist).
Moderator: Marko Stamenkovic (curator).
After party: Frame Club, Bd. Magheru nr. 38b, 22.00
The concept of dis-economy of life is meant to suggest the tight connections between the various areas in which the economic, in the sense of organization of life, affects people: public space, private life, individual mental well-being. In all these domains, a form of dis-economy occurs at the present time. As a result, people float in uncertainty, at the same time economically connected to and yet, disconnected from one another. The proposed series of films present these domains, by means of visual description, narrative, encounters, and reflexivity
Cinema Suitcase is an international group of filmmakers pursuing projects of experimental social documentary. The group consists of: Mieke Bal, Zen Marie, Thomas Sykora, Gary Ward, and Michelle Williams. Coming from a diversity of fields in the visual arts, they seek to facilitate the self-narration of their subjects, always encountered on the basis of a great intimacy, rather than constructing their stories for them. This approach enhances the performative quality of filmmaking as a collective process. The travelling media exhibition brings together three separate yet complementary work-segments (video installation Nothing is Missing; Colony; Mille et un jours & Access Denied).
Supported by:
AFCN (Romanian National Cultural Fund)
Pavilion | contemporary art & culture magazine
Persona
The debate (from left to right: Andreea Grecu, Alex Balsescu, Razvan Ion, Eugen Radescu). Videostill from Realitatea TV.
Eugen Radescu and Alex Balsescu live debate on Realitatea TV.
Marko Stamenkovic (the curator of Dis-Economy- left) and Alex Balasescu (antropologist).
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PAVILION MEETING PLACE
18-20 May 2007
Networking, debates, lectures.
Friday 18 May 2007
20.00 Launch of PAVILION magazine no. 11 on the topic “What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next”
Desant, Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123
22.00 Party with a special DJ show.
Frame, Bd. Magheru nr. 38B.
Saturday 19 May 2007
09.00 – 11.30 Informal meeting of partticipants.
Art Café, Str. Gabroveni nr. 4.
17.00 Breakfast At Pavilion
“The Magazine As Temporary Structure”, a lecture by Felix Vogel
Desant. Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123.
18.30 Breakfast At Pavilion
“Political Esthetics”, a lecture by Cosmin Marian
Desant. Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123.
Sunday 20 May 2007
10.00 – 13.00 Informal meeting of partticipants.
Art Café, Str. Gabroveni nr. 4.
17.00 Breakfast At Pavilion
“Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary”
Public debate with Jan-Erik Lundstrom & Johan Sjostrom, the curators of Bucharest Biennale 3.
The opening of the debate will be made by a lecture-research proposal by Maria Lantz.
Desant. Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123 (intersection with Turda st.)
Participants: Johan Sjostrom, Maria Lantz, Felix Vogel, Adrian Notz, Alex Balasescu, Cosmin Marian, Razvan Ion, Eugen Radescu, Lara Pandurovic, Michael Cylinki, Michaela Konrad, Sebastian Moldovan, Simion Cernica, Adrain Matei, Mateo Petterlini, Marco Ambrosi, Bartosz Ozon and many more.
Supported by AFCN, Antibiotice, Artelier and Persona.
Visit in the studio of Dan and Lia Perjovschi (image: Dan Perjovschi and Johan Sjostrom).
“Informalities”, lecture by Maria Lantz.
“The Magazine as Temporary Structure”, lecture by Felix Vogel.
Informal meeting of the participants.
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11-25 May 2007, Bucharest, Deasant, Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123.
Opening 11 May 2007, 19.00. The “Holy Damn It” debate moderated by Razvan Ion start at 19.30. Participants: Dan Perjovschi (artist/journalist), Vasile Ernu (writer/columnist), Eugen Radescu (politologist/curator), Alexandru Balasescu (antropologist), Cristian Crisbasan (writer/journalist), Adriana Zaharia (theatre director), Andreea Grecu (economist).
The art project HOLY DAMN IT has to be seen as an artistic intervention in the process of a political debate about social alternatives in the international protest and resistance movements against the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm near Rostock in 2007.
Ten international artists and artist collectives from four continents have created one poster each:
- bankleer (D)
- open circle (Indien)
- Mansour Ciss/
Laboratoire Déberlinisation (Senegal)
- Markus Dorfmüller (D)
- Petra Gerschner (D)
- Marina Gržini? (Slowenien)
- Ibrahim Mozain/Artists Without Walls
(Israel/Palästina)
- Oliver Ressler (A)
- Walter Seidl (A)
- Allan Sekula (USA)
More on: www.holy-damn-it.org
The 24 hours exhibition in the window of the location.
The debate with (from left to right): Razvan Ion, Alex. Balasescu, Dan Pejovschi, Andreea Grecu, Eugen Radescu, Vasile Ernu.
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Johan Sjöström & Jan-Erik Lundström, the apointed curators of Bucharest Biennale 3 held a press conference in Bucharest. They revealed the concept of the BB3: “Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary.” More details at www.bucharestbiennale.org
From left to right: Andreea Manolache (managing dire
